User Categories

[John_Spence]

Has anyone found either in python or via JSON where you can update a user's category? 

[Anonymous User]

Hi John, were you able to find a solution? I'm currently trying to update a user's category via python but my commands aren't working

[John_Spence]

Negative....that pattern remains unfilled. 😉

[PeterKnoop · Accepted solution]

The documentation for the User update() method indicates it now supports setting categories in the latest version of the ArcGIS API for Python.

[John_Spence]

Well call me surprised. I was looking for that the other day and didn't see it. Outstanding news! Thanks for finding it and passing along the info Peter. 🙂

[RobertWeber]

This works on the actual user but I am having issues getting it to actually add it to the categories listed in my Organization level Members page.

[RobertWeber]

So in other words it indicates that it should work and it does sort of...but not really

[Theisen]

@RobertWeber I am running into the same thing. It says it assigned the category in their profile settings but I don't see it as an option in the organization members tab filter side panel. 

Have you found a workaround or solution to this? 

[RobertWeber]

user.update(categories = ["/Categories/States/Colorado"])

@TheisenThis finally started working for me. Seems like it just takes a minute at times for it to show in the org level categories. 

[Theisen]

Thanks Robert. I ended up finding something on Github that also worked using the UserManager helper class. Below is the code snippet I grabbed from that thread. 

from arcgis.gis import GIS gis = GIS("home")

cat_users = gis.users.search(query='username:student_user_2')

print(cat_users)

gis.users.assign_categories(users=cat_users, categories=["/Categories/test"])